RAMÓN PÉREZhttp://www.ramonperez.com
Calavera StudioTue, 05 Mar 2013 20:24:54 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1jim & ihttp://www.ramonperez.com/2011/08/10/jim-i/
http://www.ramonperez.com/2011/08/10/jim-i/#commentsWed, 10 Aug 2011 19:47:12 +0000http://www.ramonperez.com/?p=2359as many are aware, and if you’re not – well now you are, i am working on an adapting jim henson & jerry juhl’s TALE OF SAND. it is an unfilmed screenplay from 1974 and ...]]>as many are aware, and if you’re not – well now you are, i am working on an adapting jim henson & jerry juhl’s TALE OF SAND. it is an unfilmed screenplay from 1974 and it is currently eating my life. i am eating, sleeping, and breathing tale of sand… and happily so. it’s a highlight of one’s career to be involved in something like this – and i’m glad archaia gave me the oportunity to be a part of it, and allowing me the freedom to adapt it as i think jim may have done so during his heyday… if he were doing comics ;P

i’m not going to blather on, as i have to finish drawing the book. but i thought i’d share one of the opening sequences in it’s formative stages – as we nail down colour and the look of the book. speaking of colour – i am blessed by the able talents of jordie bellaire in this department. check her stuff out. it rocks.

]]>http://www.ramonperez.com/2011/08/10/jim-i/feed/7the old west…http://www.ramonperez.com/2011/06/07/the-old-west-2/
http://www.ramonperez.com/2011/06/07/the-old-west-2/#commentsWed, 08 Jun 2011 03:32:11 +0000http://www.ramonperez.com/?p=2319just a quick doodle between pages of Tale Of Sand. i seem to have the old west on my mind these days. it doesn’t help that i’ve been watching everything from Stagecoach with ...]]>just a quick doodle between pages of Tale Of Sand. i seem to have the old west on my mind these days. it doesn’t help that i’ve been watching everything from Stagecoach with John Wayne to High Plains Drifter with Clint Eastwood after my long days of work. outside of classic crime noir it is one of my favourite genres of film. especially the spaghetti westerns of italy. i think i need to work on a tale of the west after i wrap Tale Of Sand…
]]>http://www.ramonperez.com/2011/06/07/the-old-west-2/feed/5Tale of Sandhttp://www.ramonperez.com/2011/04/12/tale-of-sand/
http://www.ramonperez.com/2011/04/12/tale-of-sand/#commentsTue, 12 Apr 2011 20:25:14 +0000http://www.ramonperez.com/?p=2312a kind thank you to all the people who picked up Captain America & The First Thirteen and Deadpool Team-Up 883. there has been expressed interest in purchasing original ...]]>a kind thank you to all the people who picked up Captain America & The First Thirteen and Deadpool Team-Up 883. there has been expressed interest in purchasing original art from the books – of which some has sold already – but for all those interested i will list the available pages in my store section shortly.

last month saw me attend C2E2, of which i had a glorious time. this is a convention i look forward to visiting every year.

the last day of the show saw Archaia officially announce my involvement in their project Tale of Sand. the graphic novel to be released later this year is an adaptation, by me, of an unfilmed jim henson and jerry juhl screenplay from 1974. according to the archives, this is the only full length henson script never to see the light of day. it’s been sitting in a box on a dusty shelf for almost 40 years! it is my honour, with archaia and in conjunction with the henson company, to directly adapt this story into a graphic novel. the story is a dark existential one of a man’s journey through… well that would be giving too much away. for a bit more insight into Tale Of Sand, here is an interview i did with TGTwebcomics regarding the project, as well as archaia’s stephen christy talks with fox chicago. the book is set for a 2011 fall release.

during C2E2 many a fan stopped by my table asking about the return of both kukuburi and the squash. it’s sad for me to say this, and i have posted on it earlier, that the squash is over. at least in it’s current form. there is one more strip which is 99.9% done which i will post shortly to close the online chapter of BNS. it’s been a long haul, but it’s time is done. rob and i feel that we lost our way – and never really regained our footing. we still stand proudly by what is online, but it’s time to be realistic. we do plan a ‘complete’ collection of all that is squash, and we have ideas of a new way to bring the squash back, when the time is right. we will keep you abreast of the collection as things develops.

this now brings me to kukuburi, which i hold near and dear and wish i could be working on every day. but truth of the matter is the book is quite labour intensive. i really don’t think people realize just how much time goes into a page of that book – time which i unfortunately don’t have at the moment. i had hope to be updating again by now, point in fact is that the story is written, the pages roughed out, hell there are 20 pages sitting here drawn in need of inks and colour. but with the tight deadline and amount of work required to complete Tale Of Sand my immediate dream of returning to the book has been shelved.

at C2E2 i asked fans if they would rather see me update one or two pages a month or wait till i have time to return to things proper. they all said the latter.

despite monopolizing my time right now, Tale Of Sand will allow me, once completed, to take a few months off and focus on kukuburi. i know many of you have been waiting almost a year for more story… of which i am gracious, i just ask you for a few more months.

that said, another discussion that took place at C2E2, with a prominent publisher, was in regards to the collected edition of kukuburi….

bad humour aside… this month make mine marvel! i’ve been a busy boy over the past few months and now i get to share. ...]]>

the common link being me, not kevin bacon…

sigh. okay, that was bad.

bad humour aside… this month make mine marvel! i’ve been a busy boy over the past few months and now i get to share. hitting the shelves this march are Captain America And The First Thirteen written by Kathryn Immonen and Deadpool Team-up #883written by Skottie Young with art chores on both courtesy of lil’ old me. captain america and the first thirteen debuts march 9th and deadpool a little later in the month, not quite sure of the date yet… but once i do i’ll shout it from the rooftops.

click the above links to get some sneak peaks!

enjoy.

r.

]]>http://www.ramonperez.com/2011/03/04/captain-america-deapool/feed/1Captain America via iPhonehttp://www.ramonperez.com/2011/01/17/captain-america-via-iphone/
http://www.ramonperez.com/2011/01/17/captain-america-via-iphone/#commentsMon, 17 Jan 2011 21:53:33 +0000http://www.ramonperez.com/?p=2292over the holidays i shared a few snapshots of my progress on “captain america & the first thirteen” via twitter and facebook using ...]]>over the holidays i shared a few snapshots of my progress on “captain america & the first thirteen” via twitter and facebook using my iphone. the 25 page one-shot written by kathryn immonen will be available in march. till then i thought i’d post all the little snapshots in one place….

enjoy.

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http://www.ramonperez.com/2010/11/30/jonah-hex/#commentsTue, 30 Nov 2010 21:00:46 +0000http://www.ramonperez.com/?p=2175the old west is one of my favourite genres to play in, right up there with sci-fi and crime noir. so when francesco suggested jonah hex for this week’s the old west is one of my favourite genres to play in, right up there with sci-fi and crime noir. so when francesco suggested jonah hex for this week’s comictwart i had too participate come hell or high water. at first i was at a loss for how to tackle the piece, composition wise as i wanted to do a full figure illustration – but the thing about hex is his face. so a close-up was necessary. in the end i decided on the mignola route; just mash it all together into one image.

the pencils (showcased left – click to enlarge) were done quick and loose as i wanted most of the work done at the inks stage. whereas with a sci-fi piece i would pencil rather tight to convey that tech accuracy the old west is all about loose brush strokes and moody blacks… well for me at least.

ready to go i hit up google for reference but all that came up was lame ass jonah hex movie snapshots. i gave up rather quickly and decided to go from memory… so if the accuracy is a bit off… meh.

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http://www.ramonperez.com/2010/11/30/jonah-hex/feed/1everything’s archie!http://www.ramonperez.com/2010/11/19/everythings-archie/
http://www.ramonperez.com/2010/11/19/everythings-archie/#commentsFri, 19 Nov 2010 20:39:52 +0000http://www.ramonperez.com/?p=2089this unfinished piece was initiated as part of the comictwart blog, where a different character or theme is chosen every week and a stable of artist’s tackle it. archie was my choice ...]]>this unfinished piece was initiated as part of the comictwart blog, where a different character or theme is chosen every week and a stable of artist’s tackle it. archie was my choice – but i was unable to finish it in time to post. however i want to see the piece finished. so i’ve decided to tackle it in my spare time – inking a bit here and there as i warm up for other work.

and i thought it’d be a perfect way to share a little bit of my process.

archie is americana, and i wanted to push forth that flavour with this piece. to help capture this i based the composition on the classic norman rockwell piece seen to the left. i also wanted to evoke a very clean and classic line of yesteryear, akin to old newspaper strips so i decided to ink this piece with clean and fluid lines using my go to brush; a winsor-newton sable series 7 #2 and 3.

1) initial inks; 2) a larger version of the above image.

more to come as i have time…

]]>http://www.ramonperez.com/2010/11/19/everythings-archie/feed/0Ostrichardhttp://www.ramonperez.com/2010/11/15/ostrichard/
http://www.ramonperez.com/2010/11/15/ostrichard/#commentsMon, 15 Nov 2010 21:37:09 +0000http://www.ramonperez.com/?p=2085it’s been one of those mondays.

all day.

cobwebs in my brain and as much coffee as i ingest it does nothing.

so i took this unfocussed opportunity to tackle last weeks comictwart selection;

it’s been one of those mondays.

all day.

cobwebs in my brain and as much coffee as i ingest it does nothing.

so i took this unfocussed opportunity to tackle last weeks comictwart selection; corey walker‘s ostrichard. as much as i wish i could join in every week in reality i am a twartist in absence for the most part. however, when i was presented with the ridiculousness of ostirchard i had to participate… despite being late. thanks to nathan for presenting us with (and introducing me to) corey walker’s dysfunctional hero. i had a few ideas as soon as i laid eyes on this fine fellow – but the idiotic simplicity of this one won me over.

well, it’s a little chill here, but regardless – this little femme has been sitting on my desktop for probably 12 months waiting for a dash ...]]>

something to keep you warm on a cold fall weekend.

well, it’s a little chill here, but regardless – this little femme has been sitting on my desktop for probably 12 months waiting for a dash of colour. so i thought, before i leave the studio for the weekend… why not.

a happy hallowe’en to you all!

(if i was on the ball we could’a had a trick or treat theme here at smkog… but i wasn’t. c’est la vie.)

this week see’s me attending the NYCC. i’ve gone every year as a tourist and enjoyed the show immensely – this year however will be my first year with a table, i won’t have ...]]>

this week see’s me attending the NYCC. i’ve gone every year as a tourist and enjoyed the show immensely – this year however will be my first year with a table, i won’t have much swag, perhaps a print or two and some original art. but i will be doing sketches and commissions;

$60 headshot/bust on 9×12 bristol (as can be seen in the above post)
$120 for full figure commissions on 11×17 or 11×14 bristol.